Welcome, folks!
This is a blog that I have set up especially for the group from April 30. Use this blog to to ask questions, talk about your experience, and to support each other as we start on our journey.
This is a public blog, so please do not post any private information.
Alok Kalia, MD
This is a blog that I have set up especially for the group from April 30. Use this blog to to ask questions, talk about your experience, and to support each other as we start on our journey.
This is a public blog, so please do not post any private information.
Alok Kalia, MD
do you need our gmail email before we can post to this blog?
ReplyDeleteNo - but please do sign off with your initials so I know who you are. When everyone has a g-mail address, I will see if I can close the blog so only our group can access it. AK
ReplyDeleteI'm here! monicasantiques@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI'm in - started the program today. So far, so good...MAH
ReplyDeleteI'm here, will start the program on Thursday. AG
ReplyDeleteI am with you. I didn't have all the ingredients, but most of them so I went ahead and started today. Twenty almonds went down pretty smoothly. Then salad lunch, but i'm having the chicken tonight. If this is not official enough, I will at least have begun to practice until Ernest and I can get to the grocery store. Thanks for your prompting and warnings....I read my book with lunch. SH
ReplyDeleteI will start chopping tonight and begin tomorrow. clr
ReplyDeleteI'm eating the chicken garbanzo bean salad right now for lunch. Delicious! I love that we can eat real cheese so often, as I LOVE cheese. So far, no problems staying on track. I even joined some friends last night at a Mexican restaurant and I just drank water there and went home and had my chicken kabob dinner. I was surprised how I was not tempted at the restaurant by focusing on the conversation and not the food, and eating the Texas 2-step before I went to the restaurant helped. Mary Ann
ReplyDeleteIsn't it amazing how quickly the appetite comes under control once you put your foot down? Eating your snack before going to a restaurant does make a HUGE difference.
DeleteDr. Kalia, is stevia just as good to use as you have requested that trivia was the one you had mention first?
ReplyDeleteejo
Stevia is a more natural sugar substitute than most others and has been used in South America for a long, long time. Even so, the chemicals in stevia (stevioside and rebaudioside) have not been used as extensively by humans as glucose and fructose, the components of table sugar.
DeleteBottom line: In the first two weeks, we recommend minimal sugar, if any. After that, I would prefer that you use sugar rather than a sugar substitute; I am biased towards giving the body what it is familiar with. You should not be using tons of sugar anyhow!So- use sugar (in limited amounts) rather than a sugar substitute.
By the way, I don't think I mentioned Truvia (which is the same stuff as Stevia) in the workshop. I may have mentioned agave nectar- but only to ask you to stay away from it.
ejo...started 05/07/12
ReplyDeleteI'm signing in & anxious to start the program on Monday. SJ
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